#not just in this movie but the entire wolverine franchise

[brainrotcharacters]

Wade can, in fact,

handle allat

[clueless-fan-critic]

Deadpool and Wolverine: The Prequel to the Mutant Saga

Here's How the X-Men Could Be Part of the MCU

If you're catching up on comics, the X-Men recently are experiencing one of the worst events in their history as mutants in comic book event Fall of X. Long story short, the "mutants being hated" status quo is in play and pulling the entire Marvel Comics Universe into it. With recent success of Fox's most successful leading mutants in the MCU, the audience is now asking the question... What will this mean for Mutants? In this theory article, I'll explore possible directions that the MCU may take with its cast of incalculable mutants.

X-Men Vs X-Men

What I noticed in X-Men media is that it's basically mutants against mutants. I mean, unless you singularly focus on one goal like the Krakoan Era, there's a chance that a mutant will either defect to another team, fight over leadership, or straight up leave because their feelings were hurt. Seriously, the Umbrella Academy can stay more cohesive than the X-men and those guys are a dysfunctional family. Even with legit reasons for leaving or defecting, it just gets tiresome by the fact they'll probably come back with no hard feelings.

My idea for this issue is that the people will only see the X-Men as the problem rather than mutants themselves. Think of a larger scale Civil War scenario with neutral mutants, like civilians, in the conflict getting hurt because of the X-Men's actions. This can also add themes of security or freedom, profiling, and the abuse of power by the government.

Speaking of themes, let us move on to the overall idea that mutants are always associated with. The exact reasons that were explored in a show with a recent mutant in the MCU.

X-Men and Proud

What might be addressed in the MCU is the prejudice and bigotry of mutants compared to people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and so on. I know that mutants are allegories for minorities, but that's the point. They're allegories. The one thing that I want discussed is whether the hatred is earned by mutants. Because think about it, mutants are called Homo Superiors and considered the next step in human evolution. Those ideas can seriously give you an ego and be generally disliked because of it. They also manifest crazy dangerous superpowers as teenagers, like if Hulk and Thor were emotionally unhinged boys who trashed a city over a taco. That's a more definite reason for people's hatred: constant destruction with no accountability or responsibility. But now we're getting the idea of mutants as a whole being treated as minorities and I feel that wouldn't exactly fit as well if the MCU introduced clearer examples of prejudice and culture.

Another example is the confusion of prejudice for mutants being the same as other kinds like racism and xenophobia. For example, basically Emma Frost, a blonde white mutant, is less likely to experience the same struggles as a black woman or an immigrant from another country. A discussion between her and Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, really exploring what it means to be an outsider and struggling to be accepted would combine both real-world and mutant issues.

But with the Mutant Saga coming, are we going to follow a new cast of X-Men or reintroduce old ones from the past?

The Old and the New

One advantage of the Multiverse is reintroducing old actors from previous Fox X-Men properties into the MCU. You could have The Gifted's Emma Dumont aka Polaris or Legion's Dan Stevens aka Legion. If you bring back characters as cameos, why not use them as much as possible to really build the MCU Multiverse. This would also give some closure to cancelled shows or movie franchises and maybe those characters to the MCU.

False Hope or Idea Generation?

Now, whether these ideas get any light in the upcoming Mutant Saga or just get shoved randomly into projects for no rhyme or reason, I have no clue. I guess it's good to have that kind of expectation with recent X-Men projects like X-Men 97, but I'm not holding my breath.

[xaeyrnofnbe]

question for people who liked the deadpool and wolverine movie

ok so i've disliked just about every mcu thing since endgame, and i was a diehard mcu fan up until that point. every single project since then has been unbelievably disappointing, like i'm serious i've been excited for and then disappointed by these movies/shows over and over and over, again and again. so i've pretty much entirely given up on the franchise

THAT BEING SAID, i do really love a lot of closely-related, mcu-adjacent projects (venom movies, anything spider-man,) and deadpool in particular i watched recently, one and two, and i really enjoyed them, and got real eager to see the third one

until i saw it was explicitly an mcu movie, which concerned me greatly. and by now i've learned that a good audience reaction and a solid tumblr fandom does NOT make for a movie that doesn't disappoint, as i've learned multiple times over.

so basically what i'm asking is

(elaborations in the tags as to why would also be helpful)

i want to see it but i'm scared it will be bad

[tatteredtoby]

guys this maybe will be ooc but like wade/deadpool and Logan/Wolverine with reader who’s obsessed with the trolls franchise..(targeted at me!!)

“…I swear if we walk in here and hear the weird ass noodles dancing and singing I will bend [y/n] into a Mount rageon.”

*que Mount Rageous playing*

“God damnit.”

Both end up with the songs stuck in their heads. Wades singing them all the time. he watched the movie because he heard about the boy band in it. (Totally not because of how you got all excited the entire movie)

Logan is kinda indifferent. He’ll bob his head to the soundtrack when you play it. Not like wade. When he hears it he just bursts into dance. He dgaf.

[cosmosrebellion]

So because of my currently fixation on Wolverine and the way my brain loves to think up crossovers, I'm imagining how to translate Wolverine into the RWBY universe.

It wouldn't be hard. One of the best aspects of Logan as character is his versatility. You can throw him into any story and it works.

His background: Weapon X is an Atlesian project designed to create super-soldiers to fight against Salem. Logan was kidnapped by them, had his skeleton laced with metal through a horrible process that he only survived thanks to his regeneration semblance, they armed with him retractable claws and scrambled his brain to keep him under control. And I really like the idea of Merlot being a member of Weapon X in his youth, maybe that's where he got his obsession of with controlling savagery.

How would he meet Team RWBY: Here's where it gets fun because there's a lot of options. Maybe Merlot wants revenges, remembers the projects of his youth and that Weapon X was kept in storage, so he awakens Logan and other assassins to fight Team RWBY, so we have him as an antagonist with a possible redemption after he is beaten.

Maybe he is a dark card up Ozpin's sleeve, someone looking for redemption after his years as Weapon X and who Oz sends on truly violent mission that need dirty deeds to be done. Stuff he doesn't want to give it to Qrow for fear of worsening his mental state, but that Logan accepts because he figures it's the only thing he's good for, only now he's doing it for the right cause.

Or maybe he is a broken old man way past his prime who fought Ozpin's war for too long and now just doesn't give a shit anymore. But when a kid inspires to entire world to band together and fight, he decides that it might be worth it to spend his last years fighting so the next generation can have the peace he wasn't afforded.

And honestly, those are just off the top of my head. But I know RWBY fans. Most of you wouldn't care about a short, smelly, angry old man so how do I make you interested? Well bringing in Logan would also mean bringing in his children with whom he has a very complicated relationship. Laura Kinney, Akihiro and Gabby Kinney. They're all super-awesome, super-gay, and some even think cooler than their old man.

Two more notes.

-I'd have all the Wolverines be Faunus. They're about as good a metaphor for prejudice as the mutants, so I think it work to combine some of the themes of both franchises, flawed as they are.

-I'd wouldn't bring in the X-Men, though. To keep things focus I want only want Logan, his kids and the characters related to Weapon X.

This is a silly idea that's been ping ponging around my brain. So I just want it to throw it out there. And I mean, there are two movies were Team RWBY teams up with the Justice League, is this really that much weirder?

[crascet]

Final X-Men Movie Tier List Update- Deadpool & Wolverine (Non-Spoiler)

Now finally back from D&W and it was a great movie! I loved the fight scenes with the first fight between Wade and Logan and the last fight being standouts. Logan and Wade are just great together here and how they develop their friendship is the best part. Cassandra Nova is gleefully sadistic here and a great performance put there.

I can't really go too much since that will go into spoilers, but there are surprises here that made me happy. However, I will say that my last post was strangely fitting here since the main message of the movie is preserving legacies, even if they aren't well liked as they are now.

And that's that, all the X-Men movie from Fox and now including D&W, so now all that's left is...

THE FINAL RANKING (in my opinion)

#14. X-Men: The Last Stand- A movie that just pisses me off the more I think about it.

#13. X-Men Origins: Wolverine- An eh movie with some interesting stuff, but that's it.

#12. The New Mutants- Very interesting premise, but it was alright.

#11. X-Men: Apocalypse- An ok movie carried by Erik.

#10. X-Men: Dark Pheonix- Very good first half but falls apart through the other half. Really wished there was a retry for this one.

#9. Deadpool 2- Good movie with moments and characters that I liked, but not as good as....

#8. Deadpool- A good, funny movie that redeems fans hope for Wade in this franchise.

#7. The Wolverine- Very underrated movie that should deserve some more attention honestly.

#6. X-Men- A damn good way to start off this whole franchise.

#5. Deadpool & Wolverine- A great movie that serves as an excellent send off to the franchise.

#4. X-Men: First Class- Great movie that shows the start of Charles wanting peace between mutants and humans and the rise of Erik becoming Magneto. Great performances by McAvoy and Fassbender.

#3. X2- Takes everything from the first film and elevates it to 11. Best villain of the whole franchise with Cox as Stryker and the great film debut of Kurt.

#2. X-Men: Days of Future Past- Amazing time travel movie with a great dynamic of Logan and Charles, an iconic moment with Peter, and the best climax in the entire series.

#1. Logan- A straight up masterpiece that I just love talking about since I first watched it.

[frankendykes-monster]

Of course, this is the fundamental issue with Deadpool and Wolverine. It��s not a story, it’s a collection of familiar intellectual property bundled into a two-hour package, and fans would complain if Wolverine either waited to put the costume on or eventually symbolically took it off. So the costume stays on for the movie’s runtime, because that is the priority here. That’s the primary purpose of the movie. Even the most basic storytelling logic is secondary to the desire to pander to empty nostalgia. It’s very interesting what Deadpool and Wolverine can and cannot joke about, what topics are deemed out of bounds for this most irreverent of franchises. There are no references to either T.J. Miller or Jonathan Majors, though that is to be expected. There are no references to Cable, Domino or Julian, despite the fact that they formed the emotional crux of the last film. They’ve seemingly been replaced by Shatterstar, who is alive for some reason. And who Deadpool no longer hates, for some reason. Under the Disney brand, Deadpool and Wolverine is thoroughly domesticated. Any implication that the making of this movie was troubled is sorely out of bounds. There is another small but appreciable shift between Deadpool and Wolverine and the previous two movies in the franchise. The opening credits in Deadpool and Deadpool 2 were irreverent and passive aggressive. Deadpool was directed by “an overpaid tool”, Deadpool 2 was directed by “one of the guys who killed the dog in John Wick.” In contrast, Deadpool and Wolverine is “a Kevin Feige production” and “a Shawn Levy film.” Apparently there are some things that you don’t joke about. That’s Deadpool and Wolverine in a nutshell. Or a fan-service-y yellow costume.

Still, there is something interesting here. Last year’s summer blockbusters were largely about how man had killed god, whether literally or metaphorically. The High Evolutionary stepped into the role of creator in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3. The entire journey of The Creator was to turn off the life support keeping “the Creator” alive. Barbie was about the exile from the Garden. Fast X found Dante (yes) trying to blow up the Vatican because he died and discovered there was no afterlife. Oppenheimer finds mankind taking atomic power into their own hands, “a terrible reckoning of divine power.” Loki imagines what it means to kill He Who Remains. As such, it’s interesting that this year’s blockbusters seek to fill that existential void with something: intellectual property. It’s no surprise so many of this year’s blockbusters are about intellectual property surviving the literal or metaphorical death of the author. Deadpool and Wolverine survive the merger and acquisition of Fox. Harold contemplates his creator’s mortality in Harold and the Purple Crayon. IF was about the idea that nobody outgrows their childhood imaginary friend. Argylle is the story of an author who discovers that she is ultimately a character in her own narrative. In these stories, fiction survives the loss of its creator. Intellectual property endures. Indeed, intellectual property moves to fill the gap. So many modern films are “spreadsheet movies”, films about watching companies celebrate how much stuff they own. Space Jam, The Flash, Deadpool and Wolverine. There is no story, no theme, no purpose, no character. There is only intellectual property, imagery and iconography to be memed and reproduced and reimagined and reworked, until any residual meaning is completely erased. But intellectual property doesn’t just survive. It redeems. It will save you. It is your messiah. What is Madame Web but A Very Spider-Man Nativity, the story of the birth of one Peter Benjamin Parker mythologised, with three wise Spider-Women in attendance? The joke in Deadpool and Wolverine is that Deadpool is “Marvel Jesus”, but the film is too smart to play that straight. Instead, it casts Wolverine as the messiah. Wolverine is “the anchor being.” Only through Wolverine’s death and rebirth can the world itself be redeemed, the universe born again, the centre allowed to hold. Hell, he’s even crucified at one point in Deadpool and Wolverine. [...] (It is telling that even the void has no room for anybody but superheroes. Second chances are reserved entirely for pieces of recognisable iconography, not for ordinary people. There is no humanity to be found in Deadpool and Wolverine, the narrative equivalent of watching an executive move items around a spreadsheet for two straight hours.)

[the-masked-reviewer]

X-Men (2000) Review

potential spoilers ahead..

This movie has really good CGI and special effects. The effects feel real and do a wonderful job of putting you into the movie's universe. Considering this was over 20 years ago, and the current quality coming from the same studios, I am truly impressed by what they were capable of delivering. The writing and the casting both do a good job of bringing these characters and their world to life. The fight scenes are well choreographed and really fun to watch. The story sets up the rest of the franchise and does a lot of world building. There is quite a lot of exposition, and while the movie does have an interesting story, the remainder of the movie really leaves you thinking that it's building towards later movies and not something that is really its own thing. Something I think contributed to that feeling is just how much time is spent focusing on Wolverine and not the entire team and their dynamics. I understand why they chose to focus on Logan. He's one of the most well-known characters in the X-Men franchise. However, I wish the movie just focused on the team and their dynamic as a whole. They still do a pretty decent job at introducing the rest of this version of the team and start to show some of the inner-team dynamics, just not as much as they could have.

[klxudykai]

it’s been like two weeks since my last post i didn’t die yall 🙏🏾

school has been keeping me occupied and i didn’t have much to update on

but i do have ONE thing to say. and that one thing is that i find hugh jackman extremely attractive.

i kept seeing people talk about the new deadpool and wolverine movie so i decided to watch the entire franchise starting from x men all the way to the deadpool movie 💀

sooo now that my new obsession is hugh jackman there’s a possibility i will be shifting to x men 😍😍

it’s the way that i’ve been inactive for 10 days and didn’t have any update to give other than how im obsessed with hugh 😭😭 but yeah i’ll probably come back on like weekends and stuff to just talk about random shit and give my lil bits of advice 🤷🏾‍♀️

but anywhooo i hope yall are doing good (as you can see i don’t have much to say) 🕺

[everythingisok3000]

A Brief Essay on Why Secret Worlds are Dumb and Why the MCU X-Men might Be a Mistake

OK First off I think I'm no longer a big MCU guy. Even that's kind of a weird way to think of it, but I remember watching The Avengers with my mom when it released in 2012 and thinking it was the most amazing thing ever and then slowly realizing over the next ten years that this was becoming an accepted and dominating part of movie culture, up until it started becoming sluggish and weird. Now, I haven't seen I want to say ten of the movies in the universe. Almost none of the TV shows. I keep getting hopeful about a revival of quality, but I also wonder if it's even worth it at this stage. Anyway, I'm invested in the X-Men's success in the MCU because they've done a "pretty good" to "actually a terrible movie" job for all 10ish movies that exist (Logan doesn't count in my mind, but maybe it should because it's basically the Wolverine franchise). I'm hoping this amorphous revival corresponds with the beginning of the X-Men's introduction, and that for once it will not feel like a mess with occasionally great ideas and mostly bad ones.

But first:

Secret worlds are dumb. I'll get into why this matters to X-Men in a bit toward the end. I think the most notably stupid secret world is Harry Potter, in that the reason and logistics of it staying secret are basically nonsense. I haven't read the series since middle school, so I'm a little rusty on the lore, but it appears that they disguise magic because it would be dangerous in the hands of humanity, or maybe they were persecuted by them, but like, since when? And to what end? Are there not innumerable remedies for modern problems? And to what end? Like, the world is already full of plot holes and nonsense stuff, please watch any number of videos breaking those down I enjoy them immensely. But furthermore it just makes the world less interesting. Except for Harry Potter specific plot points, the human world basically never interferes with the wizarding world, which would objectively be an interesting conflict. Somehow the world has basically no problems managing memories and perceptions despite what should be an overwhelming amount of evidence that magic exists in the world, including the natural elements.

Another in this vein I could say is the Percy Jackson series, but it makes this more interesting and "integrated". Like, there's explicit reasons why humans simply don't see the mythological worlds around them, and how these are in some ways personified elements reflecting the world that happen to have some real-world applications. Still, and like Harry Potter, I think this creates some convolution, like the desire to have your cake and eat it too.

There's a bunch of others. off the top of my head, the Assassin Guild stuff from John Wick. The little people from Epic. Toy Story. Actually, basically every other Pixar movie. Most egregiously, most superhero comics, (we'll get into it, but first:)

The thing is though, they're sort of meant to be dumb. Not that these are for kids and therefore are supposed to be dumb for their sake (and not that they aren't written as that as well, in some cases). A lot of these have the childlike view of "There's something beyond the world I see", allowing for this unique element hidden from the world but open to them. It's sort of wish fulfillment, and it makes characters more relatable to the reader. It's much harder to sell a world with people that are well familiar with everything in the world already. Much easier if you're Bob McNormal bumbling around asking questions about everything.

On top of that, a lot of these stories are simply not interested in the story possibilities of these worlds intersecting. Yeah, it might be interesting to see the world's response to toys actually being living creatures, but then that becomes an entirely different story from the one the creators wanted you to experience, which is more about the value we have for toys and how they might feel about us in return.

Then we have comics.

Comics do this weird thing where somehow everything, and I mean everything, is a "secret world", with each new thing being a surprise, despite clear logic that it should not, and this fact hampering the story. There's of course several continuities for everything, but generally the mistakes begin when the world is just already very normal. These worlds are usually based in mythological and sci-fi origins that would prevail understandings of how things work, but are never addressed or taken as fact until Superman starts existing. Magic is another thing, where most people don't understand or are surprised by its existence despite enough minor characters knowing and possessing it to populate a town. Aliens are another thing, where they're somehow unknown and unheard until they're explicitly announced, and even when they are typical life seems unaltered except for a few groups of people. I mean, yeah, comics aren't usually focused on the civilian perspective, but wouldn't that be objectively interesting no matter how you look at it? And at a certain point, wouldn't it just be stupid if every new thing is a surprise to characters? I've been reading old Fantastic Four, and there's several of these. Wakanda. Atlantis. The Inhumans. The Negative Zone. Various Aliens and Planets. Freaking Latveria. These are all new and surprising things about the world that the Fantastic Four and the rest of the world are discovering, yet everything is normal otherwise.

Thus we return to X-Men. I'm told that The Marvels has a scene where one of the characters travels to an alternate timeline with the X-Men, specifically Beast, in an end credits scene (of course). It seems for some reason they're going to go for an "alternate timeline with mutants" thing, and somehow mash these things together. Maybe they'll have that Marvel 616 combining with 1610 thing which everybody liked and it made so much sense. Part of this, I think, wouldn't make sense. As a world without mutants simply doesn't make sense in the world of marvel. Every other character in the universe is a mutant or has mutant ties, even outside of X-Men titles. Part of this is that X-Men are specifically a political group, a lot of their stories tying into their influence in the world and the consequences of their existence. Hell, a bunch of characters are simply responsible or involved in historical events. See Apocalypse. There's some serious nonsense they'd have to do to make them make sense in the world of the MCU. It wouldn't make sense, for instance, if they simply start to exist all of a sudden. It would make most character identities completely different to their comic counterpart. We'll get into that thing about how the characters presented aren't actually the way they're presented but how they're supposed to be based on external media.

Hence the most unfortunately logical arguments for the existence of mutants in the MCU. They're "secret". I've of course already mentioned how the significance of their existence would be contradictory to their place in the Marvel universe, but also the scale of it wouldn't make sense.

For an example, let's take a classic: The Manhattan Project. A cool fact I heard on the internet and various sources is that one of the most secretive and important projects in American history was not very secret to those for whom it was significant. Spies, internal workers, people that observed the loss of certain physicists from magazine subscriptions, all had at least an inkling of what was going on, if not the full truth. This sort of thing is one of those conspiracy breakers. If only one nation is securing an important top secret, why would multiple corroborate an even more important one.

Bringing this over to X-Men in the MCU: We have to first assume that X-Men simply must exist in some capacity in the MCU. Somehow to the extent that oldheads like Magneto, Professor X, Mr. Sinister, etc. have based their identities on it. Furthermore we have to assume there's some control over the outbreak of mutants and knowledge of their existence. This thing that should have existed for centuries by now, (see literally freaking Wolverine, for example), let's assume it's less so, even. Let's also assume families and friends involved are kept quiet. How the hell are the Avengers, Wizards, Vigilantes of various kinds, Mystic Worlds, Aliens, etc. NOT aware of their existence in any capacity whatsoever. We literally had a large-scale government conspiracy in Captain America 2, where the country was being run in part by literal neo-nazis, but somehow the existence of a large subset of people is kept under wraps. Magneto, in all his extremism, has yet to perform earth-shattering acts of terrorism against the people shutting up his and mutantkind existence for the past, let's say, 10+ years at least?

So, therefore, unless they resolve all of these issues, it wouldn't make sense for mutants to exist in the MCU. But they must. Yet how? If they do that world-smashing thing, or even have a link between these specific worlds for the purpose of having character interactions between established characters and newly introduced ones, how will that even remotely address or delve into the interesting political consequences of mutant existence in the world? A secret world in this case doesn't make sense, and convolutes things outside of what is interesting about this topic.

So what is the poor multi-billion dollar media franchise to do?

Well,

Surprise Reveal: This is a Pitch for how Mutants Could Work in the MCU (by me)

Yes, I have duped you all. All three of you following me, and however many somehow find the tags I threw on here and read through this freaking essay.

I have not actually consumed much X-Men materials, I'm sad to say. Yet I love them. What I have read and consumed is great and interesting and fun and I just really like this kind of world they do. After I finish reading all of Fantastic Four, (I'm like 12% of the way there), X-Men is next.

My understanding, however, is that the X-Men get into all sorts of whacky shenanigans even outside of their political activism. Infamously so. See the well-known "10 X-Men Plots" post for examples. I'll give here an specific, then unspecific pitch for how it works, then we'll see about it.

Basically: At some point in the past, mutants were removed from all of history and apparent existence. This was done in the form of transporting what would've been our current mutant population to an alternate but identical world where they've been living their lives as normal, but without all the other superhero stuff, (Wakanda, Avengers, Wizards, Gods, etc.), mirroring how people in the current MCU see the world as being without mutants.

Through some event, however, the worlds collide through some sort of event, pushing all of mutant kind into the world of the MCU. Since they have memories of both places, they return as though they'd been missing for years, while all other "normal" people are given the memories between the two worlds, one or the other. This includes human allies and enemies of the mutants, who both recognize and sometimes don't recognize them. As for who and why, my bet is on Scarlet Witch and some delayed reaction to her death, (if we're going to totally accept that she's dead now), she did one of those "no more mutants" things that got rid of them, and her death brought them back. Or maybe some other force of mutant nonsense, doesn't particularly matter.

The conflict of the film would then be: how do mutants interact with this world that doesn't know of them? Several "passing" notable mutants might be able to walk free of their purpose with the X-Men, especially given they might not be necessary anymore. Others might want to preemptively advocate for their existence and make it known that they are around. Meanwhile Magneto or whatever conflicting ideal would want to make it known and get the jump on humanity. From here on, after and even within this movie, mutants are a part of history that is now "forgotten" because of the combination of worlds.

This obviously has a lot of problems with it, especially with how the memories of everyone would work. What determines if some people have memories of one world or another? What if some people are living or dead in the opposing worlds, what happens with the combination of them then? Do they live or die? That's sort of difficult to determine. Here's the unspecific version then:

Mutants that existed in the world were erased from it temporarily, similar to "The Blip" and length of five years that happened with Endgame, and are suddenly brought back. Whether or not they were "actually there" the whole time (would be stupid) or "now exist with no consequences from their previous life" (kind of depressing, opens up a conflict we don't want to explore, really), is sort of up to Kevin Feige himself.

We already have had this happen in the MCU, with Dr. Strange and magic. (No one knew of it/took advantage of it before that movie?) I think there's a better way to do it. It does seem like they have a plan. The new (hopefully not bad) Fantastic Four movie is supposed to take place in the 60's, perhaps in a different reality, like they've been doing. I anticipate in a matter of years, (the next Avengers movie?) we'll have a whole universal reset that just gets rid of these problems anyway. Just, please don't make X-Men a "secret world", I beg of you.

[kevinsreviewcatalogue]

Review: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Rated R for strong bloody violence and language throughout, gore and sexual references

<Originally posted at https://kevinsreviewcatalogue.blogspot.com/2024/08/review-deadpool-wolverine-2024.html>

Score: 3 out of 5

The Marvel Cinematic Universe's first R-rated film, and the long-awaited arrival of Deadpool into the MCU following Disney's buyout of 20th Century Fox, is exactly what I was expecting: a gleefully lowbrow pisstake on superhero movies that this time lets them train their fire directly on the 800-pound gorilla of the whole genre now that they're all under the same corporate umbrella. It's undoubtedly a weaker film than its two predecessors, one that is unfortunately afflicted by many of the problems that have recurred throughout the MCU in general and its later period in particular, most notably exceptionally thin narrative tissue that serves primarily as filler to get to the action, the jokes, and the laundry list of cameos. But really, that's just about what I expected from Deadpool entering the MCU: a movie where you knew Disney wouldn't let him interact with the really important stuff, especially not at a time when the whole franchise is at a crossroads thanks to declining reviews, audience burnout, and well-publicized behind-the-scenes troubles, and would instead give him his own little corner of the universe to fuck around with in exchange for mocking the shit out of the rest of it from the bleachers. The result is, basically, a oneshot Deadpool/MCU shitpost fanfic done professionally, a film that, for all that Wade Wilson hypes himself up as "Marvel Jesus" who's gonna save the MCU, knows that it doesn't really matter except maybe on a thematic level. It's a movie made for everybody who's gotten bored with superhero movies in general and Marvel's brand of such in particular, one that's also a pretty good example of the genre in its own right and a fun welcome party for Deadpool into his new home -- even if, and I can't believe I still have to say this after three Deadpool movies, parents absolutely, positively should not take their kids to see it.

(Kids themselves, on the other hand? Feel free to sneak in to your heart's content. I'm not gonna stop you. Shit, I'm the kind of guy who bought a metal water bottle specifically small enough to sneak it into theaters in my pockets. I swear, the Deadpool movies are basically this generation's version of RoboCop in terms of extremely R-rated films that kids seem to love anyway.)

You know exactly what kind of irreverent movie this is the moment it opens with Deadpool, in an effort to save his universe from destruction by the multiversal time-cops of the Time Variance Authority, nullifying the tragic, moving sendoff that Wolverine (and, by extension, Hugh Jackman) experienced at the end of Logan by literally digging up his grave and then defiling his corpse by using his adamantium-plated bones as weapons to brutally slaughter the TVA agents after him. (Oh, and spoilers for Logan. This movie spoils it anyway, so hey.) The entire plot is a metaphor for how Disney's buyout of 20th Century Fox means the end of Fox's X-Men movie universe and all the other superhero movie franchises that Fox produced, starting with the fact that Wolverine's death means that the timeline that he and Deadpool inhabited lost its "anchor being" -- which is to say, Wolverine was the breakout star of those movies, and the decision to kill him off marked the symbolic end of the X-Men movies. And the ambitious TVA bureaucrat Mr. Paradox has decided that, rather than let that timeline naturally decay and fade away over the course of a few millennia, they're gonna strip it for parts and then "prune" it with a sci-fi doomsday weapon that will delete it from existence. Deadpool decides that, even though Disney the TVA wants him in the MCU Sacred Timeline because he's that awesome a character, he's not gonna go if it means that all of his friends are gonna get blinked out of existence as their timeline is "pruned". No, he's gonna find a new Logan to replace the one his universe lost, and if that means crossing the TVA, so be it.

Thus begins a wild and wacky buddy action flick in which Deadpool manages to snatch a Logan wearing a comics-accurate blue-and-yellow Wolverine costume, but one who was also a failure in his own universe whose alcoholism caused him to let his fellow X-Men down in fatal, catastrophic fashion. Hugh Jackman, returning to the part he's played for over twenty years now (and, as Deadpool jokes, is probably gonna be dragged back to until he's ninety), serves largely as the straight man to Ryan Reynolds' off-the-wall humor as Deadpool, and as the film's emotional anchor who gets much of the drama and trauma in his life and past. There's no way his performance here would ever top Logan, but for the kind of movie this is, Jackman is still perfect for the part, establishing great buddy chemistry with Reynolds right off the bat as the two of them bicker, argue, fight, try to kill each other on multiple occasions, and eventually set aside their differences and become friends. At its core, underneath all the in-jokes and moments that have had comic book fans buzzing for months now thanks to the rumors circulating about them, this is a buddy cop movie without the cops, and Jackman and Reynolds sell it the way that Mel Gibson and Danny Glover sold it in Lethal Weapon.

As for everyone else, merely listing the characters who show up here, drawn from throughout the history of Marvel comic book adaptations over the last thirty years, would spoil half the fun. The experience of watching this as a lifelong fan of superhero movies is a two-hour version of the famous shot in The Avengers of Captain America saying "I understood that reference," and I'll admit that it's pretty shallow and, in its own way, suffers from a lot of the same problems with continuity lockout that have plagued the MCU lately. In this case, instead of the plots of movies and TV shows that came before it, this film asks you to be familiar with a lot of the backstage drama and inside baseball that's gone on with them, from canceled X-Men spinoffs to the prior roles of some of the MCU's biggest stars to a reboot that Kevin Feige and company have been trying to get made for years but which at this point seems to be cursed. If ever the term "Reddit movie" were to be applied to a film, this would be the ticket. Personally, I did, in fact, understand those references, being as I am in the prime demographic this movie was made for, a young man raised on superhero movies who does in fact use Reddit. As such, I laughed my ass off at a lot of the jokes here. That being said, I can easily imagine how a lot of this film's humor might fly over the head of somebody younger or much older than me who isn't familiar with the movies this one is referencing, and would wind up as lost as I did watching the third act of Last Action Hero when that movie turned into a parade of '90s Hollywood in-jokes. Fortunately, the general pop culture jokes and cheesy pop music dance sequences (with some Y2K-era bangers thrown in alongside the expected '80s classics) are things that I can't see ever getting old. This may be more of a "reference movie" than its predecessors, but make no mistake, it still has their sense of humor, and it taps that to the fullest.

Beyond the humor, what plot this movie has is pretty thin and exists mainly to propel it to the next joke or action scene. Emma Corrin was easily the standout in the supporting cast as the villain Cassandra Nova, an evil twin sister of Professor X who got banished to the Void and rules it as her own personal fiefdom. The role was honestly pretty thankless and existed largely to give the movie a superpowered villain, but Corrin utterly devours it, playing Cassandra like a femme version of Gene Wilder (who Reynolds compared their performance to) as a kinda smarmy, aristocratic, and mischievous figure whose friendly demeanor can vanish in an instant the moment she decides she doesn't like you. The action scenes are about what you'd expect from Marvel at this point, boasting that familiar blend of CGI spectacle with the wacky setups we've come to expect from anything with Deadpool in it, from the 20th Century Fox logo having been dumped into the Void to some very creative use of a Honda Odyssey. These movies were all about the humor and the raunch more than anything else, anyway, and having the action and plot here be basically MCU boilerplate but with more blood and gore keeps the spotlight squarely on such, even if it never reaches the heights it did in prior films.

The Bottom Line

Joining the MCU has taken away none of Deadpool's characteristic charm or bite and given him plenty of new targets to mock. There may not be much to this movie beyond humor and bloody violence, and it may not be as lightning-in-a-bottle awesome as the first two, but as far as a 128-minute joyride goes, I was never not amused.

[capsarcastica]

Deadpool & Wolverine Review

This one is the weakest in the Deadpool series but also has so much to enjoy. It's more like the swan song of the Fox X-Men series rather than an MCU entry.

First the bad. It's pretty tame compared to the first two Deadpool movies. It may be because it's now under the official Disney-Marvel banner, or maybe it's because the Writers and Actors strikes during development. Whatever the reason, it seems like it's pulling its punches. It still has plenty of bite, but there's some obvious stuff the movie avoids going after.

Already, some of the worst of the MCU is bleeding in. Mostly, that it relies too much on other works. Don't know the entire history of Marvel movies including undeveloped ones then the cameos don't feel special. Some of the stuff can go over the heads of casual fans. Didn't see Loki on Disney+? Then a lot of the second half won't make any sense. Deadpool has always used references to other Marvel work, but this is the first time it's necessary to the plot to know this stuff.

Sadly, the supporting cast seems to have been tossed aside. There's the party scenes that bookend the movie, but they're entirely gone. None of the fun interactions with Colossus, Negasonic, Dopinder, etc that made the first two so much fun. There's a moment that seems like a set-up to a side story about them rescuing Wade, but nothing comes from it.

The movie doesn't have the emotional core that the earlier two did. The first was a love story and the second about family. They had personal stakes. This one is about the destruction of the universe, which is big but lacks that personal touch. It also doesn't connect to the end of the second film as far as where the characters are. Too much of the in-between has to be explained when it would've been easier to just rewrite some scenes.

There are two villains, but neither are interesting. Both seem to do whatever furthers the plot but not what makes sense. Neither have a plan that seems thought out, just to make the most problem at any given moment. The previous two had great conflicts, and this points to that lack of personal stakes.

And finally, the Multiverse. Marvel and DC Comics have made great use of alternate realities, What Ifs, and possible futures. The movies not so much. I love seeing Patrick Stewart, Michael Keaton, and Tobey Maguire back in costume. But bringing back beloved actors, and occasionally listening to fan castings, seems to be the extent of what the movies are doing. The Deadpool Corps are also wasted. The idea of dozens of alternate Deadpools coming together should be cinematic gold. Instead they're mostly treated as cannon fodder.

Now the good. The titular duo are amazing together. Reynolds and Jackman know how to bounce off each other. Both are in perfect form, showing the kind of rapport that's straight out of the comics. This is a team up that's been fifteen years in the making, and it doesn't disappoint in that regard. Though it's definitely more Wolverine's movie. It acknowledges how terrific Logan is, but gives this new Wolverine plenty of depth in what might be the best example of having its cake and eating it too.

The movie does for the X-Men movies what No Way Home did for Spider-Man. It expertly includes the previous movie into the MCU while making a great case for their continuation. The X-Men and Spider-Man movies are the reason the MCU even exists so it's nice to see them treated so lovingly.

Just like the original Deadpool did, the movie expertly brings the R rating to the MCU. In fact, there's more blood, swearing, and carnage than the other Deadpool movies. The only thing I know they couldn't do is hardcore drug use, and this makes for some fun scenes with Blind Al. This may be under the family friendly Disney banner, but Marvel seems to realize it's best for some franchises do their own thing.

Deadpool has always had fun with Easter eggs, cameos, and references. This one more than most. The fight at the 20th Century Fox logo being a big one. It brings back a lot of characters from the franchise, and some from others like the Russian guy from the Thomas Jane Punisher movie. It may be more in-your-face than the previous two, but it's a lot of fun for the hardcore fans.

This one feels like Avengers: Endgame. Too many problems to really match up to the previous entries, but too much good stuff to be bad. The MCU has been in a rough spot, but if anything this movie proves that Marvel can acknowledge that and work to fix it. Hopefully this won't be the last we see of Deadpool and Wolverine.

[hellou-i-guess]

Hello, hello

Welcome to episode 3 of Things that frustrate me, Hellou, for some reason

Today I present to you:

STOP CALLING IT A MULTIVERSE IT'S NOT A MULTIVERSE

This entire post came to be simply because I have seen many people and videos say 'All franchises (MCU and Star Wars most frequently) now want a multiverse' or something along those lines.

Now onto the program:

It's just semantics, really.

I think that it is pretty clear what the word 'multiverse' stands for, but I like the order so you get the unnecessary etymology.

The word 'multiverse' is made up of two words - multi and universe. It's used in science and storytelling to tell us that there are multiple different universes that happen at the same time where things are different.

From a storytelling perspective it's mostly used in comics. Firstly used in 'The Flash', but now commonly tied with MCU because of the Multiverse Saga.

And here is my a bit harsh opinion - MCU is not a multiverse. Currently at the very least. Not many things that are called 'multiverse' are actually functioning multiverse.

They deal with the multiverse but are not the multiverse.

DC and Marvel as comics are multiverses, because they have comics happening in different universes to theirs, but I will not be focusing on those, because I don't want to entangle myself into like 90 years of comics and retconning and 'is this now cannon or not or did it happen on Earth xxx'.

So there are a couple of examples I would mainly like to focus on in this amateur essay - Star Wars, DCU (the presentation on Gunn's plan for it specifically), MCU - the multiverse saga and 'Legend of Zelda' Franchise (post 'Ocarina of Time').

Gunn's plan for DCU

This will be brief as we don't know much about how this will actually pan out, but DCU as it is planned is actually a multiverse.

Simply due to them not dismissing the other movies and saying that they plan to make movies not connected to the storyline that they will call 'Elseworlds' stories.

So essentially the story is taking a place in another universe and exists inside DCU it just isn't the part of main continuity we are following.

That is a multiverse as they exist inside the same entity with same characters, but in different universes. Simple enough.

MCU - The Multiverse Saga

Unlike the above mentioned DCU, the MCU deals with multiverse. Doctor Strange, Ant-man, Spiderman and Loki are characters whose stories are interconnected with the multiverse - hence the name of the saga.

However, MCU as entertainment entity owns no films or TV shows that have stories running or happening in different universes that have nothing to do with the main continuity. All of the stories take place in one universe with brief touches on other universes.

If the MCU, for example acquires Iron Man: Armored Adventures and that comes under the MCU umbrella, then, yes, the MCU is a multiverse, but until that or something similar happens it is not a multiverse.

'Deadpool and Wolverine' does not change this fact as the MCU has acquired characters, but not the movies from 20th Century Fox. They essentially have the same entrance to MCU as America Chavez.

The Legend of Zelda - post 'Ocarina of Time'

As anybody who played the games or has watched a lore video explaining the Zelda timeline at 2am instead of sleeping will tell you - it's a mess.

I'll be short (shocking), after the events of 'Ocarina' the timeline splits into three - the hero is successful which leads into child and adult eras and Ganondorf succeeds. Different games happen during this three eras and they are fully independent of each other and events that happen in them. 'Wind Waker' has no impact on 'Twilight Princess'.

This was specifically included for that rift in the timeline, because whether 'The Legend of Zelda' is a multiverse depends on how you see the multiverse.

If your definition of multiverse is completely different universes that have existed independently of each other then no, it is not a multiverse.

If you count diverging timelines as different universes branching out from the same one then yes, it is a multiverse.

Of course, these are only valid if we ignore the existence of 'Breath of the Wild' and 'Tears of the Kingdom'.

Why? Because of their placement in the timeline.

If the timelines converge sometime before the events of 'BotW' then no, it is not a multiverse, just a timeline issue bordering on multiverse.

If they don't refer to previous if loop.

Unfortunately, 'BotW' has no official placement in the timeline and this thing is still murky. I have seen people put it in different spots in the timeline.

Star Wars

While we're on the topic of timelines. Star Wars is the most frequent franchise I have seen referred to as the multiverse and it's just not.

It's the simplest example here do dissect.

It's stories taking place in different points in the same timeline of one universe. There is no mention of other universes of diverging timelines.

Same as 'House of the Dragon' and 'Game of Thrones'. It's the same universe, it's just that one takes place nearly 200 years before the other. There are just larger time jumps and different political conflicts and state of political rest (empire and republic).

In conclusion, just because a franchise has different projects or deals with the multiverse does not mean that franchise itself is a multiverse.

If you read this far - thank you, sorry for the long read

:)

[whatyourusherthinks]

Deadpool & Wolverine Review

Is there a reason I should review this movie? Everyone already saw it and formed their opinion on it. Maybe I should just skip this one...

Don't even think about it thunder thighs! You think you can give this movie the same treatment as Babes? ...Who the fuck are you? Where's Buggnutz? I gave him the week off, I'm just making sure the BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR gets the proper respect it deserves. Now hold on a sec- Just tell us your history with the franchise Betsy.

Uh... Well I saw Logan Good and only the first Deadpool Unacceptable, should've watched every movie the character has been in before watching this one. Even X-Men Origins: Wolverine? YES! But I don't want to! I know what happens in that movie and Deadpool 2, and I didn't have any trouble understanding the movie! Yeah but if you watched those the trailer would've made you moist, wouldn't've? I doubt it. I like Logan a lot and Deadpool was great when it came out, y'know, when I was sixteen. But I haven't seen either in like 7 years and have no desire to revisit any X-Men movie. I'm just more of an Avenger comic reader, y'know? Fucking liar, you've only got DC comics on your shelf. We fucking caught ya bitch I bet you don't even like the MCU. Hey thanks for that segway!

This is gonna be the first and only chance I get to talk about the MCU this year, unless Venom forgets to take it's medication again, but I like the MCU a lot. More than most reviewers seems to, anyway. I have some differing opinions that some of the other fans too (The first Avengers movie is the best one, eat my entire asshole.) but I liked most of the movies in Phase 4 or 5 or whatever well enough. Hell, I'm one of the like sixteen people who watched The Marvels, and that movie was a lot of fun. If you are tired of the MCU, that's fine. I feel like you can stop talking about it if you want to. Amen and praise Stan Lee, now get to the sticking your dick in the movie! In a good way or a bad way? Up to you *audible wink*.

What's The Movie About?

CAMEOS. CAMEOS CAMEOS CAMEOS. WHAT PLOT IT'S JUST FUCKING CAMEOS. It's more than just cameos dicksquirt. Yeah barely. It's something about Deadpool's timeline being erased and he needs Wolverine for some reason to fix it. And Wolverine's sad because he let his X-Men die. But it's also a Deadpool movie so you don't fucking care. They're lying watch the movie eight times to catch the subtle storytelling they clearly missed. DON'T DO THAT.

What I Like.

The music is good. Hoo boy are we off to a screaming start. Chill. I was just saying that I like that the Deadpool movies use unconventional songs for action scenes, and the Madonna song they use over the final battle was cool. I really liked the cameos that made up the resistance team against the villain. Spoilers artfully dodged, wonderful dismount! And they were pretty much the only cameos I liked. Never mind, tripped at the goal line. The action is also really good. As befits the character, it is brutal and hilarious, but I wasn't expecting the how well they showcase some characters' powers. Weeooo Weeoo backhanded compliment alert! Highlight for me was the fight scene over the opening credits. I really liked the fight and how creatively sacrilegious it was. Plus, some of the humor made me laugh. The send off the Fox Studios over the credits was sweet, and I can see fans of pre-MCU Marvel movies not only getting a kick out of the movie, but really appreciating the fact this movie exists. So that's very nice. Beautifully prosed. Now, everyone stop reading here mmmkay? Just rest easy that some unknown and sexually frustrated fumble-cunt agrees with your pretty little opinion. You don't need to see the rest. Stop driving away my readers! I ain't got much of them to begin with.

What I Didn't Like.

Almost everything good this movie does has some parts that were dumb or annoying. Like half the comedy is obnoxious. God, tell me something new! Kinda like your interruptions, fuckhead! The character of Deadpool is as faithful as ever, which means he can be super fucking annoying. At least the other characters think so too, but it doesn't help that Wolverine saying fuck every other word was getting on my nerves. Pot calling the kettle blaaaaaaack. Well it sounds weird! Also, not only am I trying to cut back on my swearing a bit, but also I change it up every once in a while. Shitheel. Hehehe sweet talker. Now tell me the villain's lame even though you've never read about this character and don't know how faithful she is to the source material. Um, yeah, that's true. But even if she is faithful it doesn't change that she's bland. You thought the finger-mindreading effect was cool, admit it! Uh, yeah also true. But it makes no sense! Who are you, the fucking mind police, fingerbanging edition? Who cares what if it makes sense? It extends to the whole plot though! The time travel stuff (Spoilers) IT'S IN THE TRAILER! Is not cohesive with the MCU explanation as a whole. It would help if the plot wasn't clearly an afterthought, but clearly I'm the only viewer who fucking cares. What? The movie can't make up it's own thing? Not if it's gonna pillage the MCU crumbs for cheap fanservice and jokes! AND SPEAKING OF CHEAP JOKES, why is it funny that Deadpool is gay? Because getting fucked in the ass is funny. Why?! Seriously, sit down and tell me why is Deadpool being gay or bisexual or whatever funny. I'm not saying LGBTQIA+ people are above being made fun of, Soundslikethat'swhatyou'redoing but I just don't get it. And not only is this a well that the movie comes to time and time again, but it's all over the marketing! At least it's better gay man representation than Mean Girls. ...Fuck you. Gladly. Can you at least admit that this movie is too long. What?! Are you on all the cocaine Feige confiscated from the cast/prop department? No, but during for the entire final act I was waiting for the movie to wrap up! And my god! Can a Marvel movie have stakes again? MCU movies have never been great for having plots with lasting consequences, but at least they were good at faking it. THERE WERE TWO MOVIES BETWEEN INFINITY WAR AND END GAME. Wait wait wait, you wanted the movie to kill Wolverine and Deadpool? YES. This is definitely gonna be the last movie where Hugh Jackman plays Wolverine and definitely should be the last Deadpool movie, so why not? Hell, isn't the whole point of the final fight scene to tell us that there is a million versions of Deadpool in the multiverse? So you could totally kill him off and still keep Ryan Reynolds on the hook for whatever cameos you want. Christ Buggy was right, you are a sociopath! WELL MAYBE IF MOVIES STOPPED FAKING CHARACTER DEATHS I WOULDN'T COMPLAIN ABOUT IT SO MUCH. Stakes are only effective if you sometimes follow through with the threats the story gives. Bathos be damned, my balls are the shade of blueberries.

Final Summation.

The movie's fine. After all that? You're not even gonna give us the good shit you whingeing coconut? Well the movie ain't worst movie I've seen in any aspect. It's not the worst superhero, Fox, or Marvel movie I've watched, hell, not even the worst of any of those movies I've seen this year! But it's also not the best thing since self-lubricating dildos. I'm giving it a begrudging recommendation, not that it matters because if you want to see this movie even slightly you already did.

We're just gonna end of self-lubricating dildos? YEP AND YOU CAN LICK MY CINNAMON RING BITCH.

[msclaritea]

Patrick Stewart Calls Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Filming 'Frustrating and Disappointing' - IGN

Ryan Dinsdale

BY RYAN DINSDALE

UPDATED: JAN 4, 2024 9:50 AM

POSTED: JAN 4, 2024 9:42 AM

Professor X actor Patrick Stewart has called his experience filming for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness "frustrating and disappointing", though may still return to the character for the upcoming Deadpool 3.

Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Stewart was asked to confirm if he, like some other actors filming for the Marvel Cinematic Universe entry, were actually interacting with their colleagues or just playing the part solo.

"It was alone," Stewart said, shaking his head. "I think the big scene, each one of the leading actors had the same experience. They were shot on their own. It was a frustrating and disappointing but that's how it has been. The last few years have been challenging."

The "big scene" Stewart references saw Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange appeal to the Illuminati for help, which in this multiverse was made up from the likes of Stewart's Professor X, John Krasinski's Mr Fantastic, Lashana Lynch's Captain Marvel, Hayley Atwell's Captain Britain, and more. Each member of the Illuminati was then cut down by a savage Scarlet Witch, played by Elizabeth Olsen.

Despite the poor experience, Stewart admitted conversations were happening surrounding Deadpool 3, the upcoming Marvel entry starring Ryan Reynold's Deadpool, Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, and seemingly a lot more of the characters from the X-Men films.

Stewart was first asked if he knew how many times Professor X had died in his eight film appearances before laughing at the answer: four, meaning a 50% death rate. "I don't know [what that implies]," he laughed. "But I do now have every confidence that he's still around."

Deadpool himself wasn't around for the Mutant Massacre crossover, but it's a story that would make for good fodder for the next movie. In this story, the X-Men join forces with several other Marvel heroes to prevent Mister Sinister's mercenary squad the Marauders from slaughtering the sewer-dwelling Morlocks. It's a conflict that would pair well with Wade's habit of protecting mutant underdogs. Given how Deadpool 2 and X-Men: Apocalypse have both teased the arrival of Sinister, it's about time we see this twisted geneticist pop up somewhere in the X-Men cinematic universe.

The first storyline on Deadpool's relaunched 2012 comic started the series off on a bizarre note, as Wade had to deal with the reanimated corpses of America's past presidents, not to mention the pesky ghost of Benjamin Franklin. Somehow, the franchise just doesn't seem complete until we get to see Deadpool and Abraham Lincoln go head-to-head in the boxing ring.

When neither Cable nor Deadpool's comics were selling particularly well in the early 2000s, Marvel combined them together and instantly reinvigorated both characters. The opening storyline in Cable & Deadpool set a strong example for the series, pitting the two unlikely friends against one another over possession of a virus that can remake the physical appearance of anyone exposed to it. If Cable is going to stick around this franchise, there are far worse places to look for inspiration.

Deadpool 2 featured a tease for "M-Day," a disastrous event in Marvel's comics where Scarlet Witch all but wiped out the mutant race. Why not lean into that tease and give us a full-blown adaptation of House of M, the story that culminated in M-Day? The bulk of this story explores an alternate reality where Magneto and his family reign supreme. We'd like to see how Deadpool fares in a world like that. That's not to mention the long-term consequences House of M could have on the larger X-Men universe..."

BIG MISTAKE. HUGE, COS.

Why? Because I discovered months ago that the entire Star Trek franchise has been under the thumb of the Cult of Scientology for years. Not sure about the original, but for those who don't know, it had some very subtle Queering, so I'm pretty sure they wanted to fully queer Kirk and Spock in the reboots, but ended up just doing a side character. In addition:

David Birkin, having not one, but two appearances, playing Captain Picard as a child.

Bryan Singer, a known Pedo and serial assaulter, remaining attached to the X Men franchise for years (and they are linked)

Majority of the actors being British, where Scientology and it's Satanic roots come from

Ian McKellen joined in promoting the actress, Ellen Page, as Transgender

IGN, a COS partner, actively engaged in harassment of Benedict Cumberbatch, through negative articles and by repeatedly tweeting a short video, detailing one of the most traumatic events in his life (the kidnapping in Africa)

A character in Strange New Worlds (note, the piggybacking of his mcu character) La'an Noonien Singh, who it seems 'whined' about being bullied because of her 'infamous' last name. Pre-Programming. If they bullied the actor once, they did it a 100,000 times on social media, because of his name

One of the Strange New Worlds writers, also wrote the last project that Tom Holland did, which gave him so much trauma, he decided to take a year off, for which the Cult tried to threaten him using social media

His tormenters also used trolls to accuse the British actor, again repeatedly, of stealing a role, Khan, from BOTH East Indians and Mexicans. After years of this we finally realized that if anyone was guilty of that, it has been Richardo Montalban. He is European Spanish...white European. So, it was another lie

Picard also engaged in that new, strange, activist writing that Hollywood has been into, whereby they ruin an iconic, white male character

They even try AGAIN, to promote Elizabeth Olsen, in this article. Let me make it plain, so that there's no mistake about this, because our group IS privy to info, sometimes and so far, it's usually correct. Elizabeth Olsen wasn't just acting as a meme thirsty actress on DS2. She acted as a SPY for Disney competitors. Now, if any of the COS partners, like Universal or WB want a piece of that chick, they can go ahead.

And ALL THIS, I actually just kept to myself, specifically out of respect for SIR Patrick Stewart. I should know better and if Hollywood doesn't stop pushing these actors to do and say stupid shit in public, they won't have anyone left, worth having any respect for. Good God, he even uses the same narrative that Olsen used during DS2 promotions, where she complained about the Green Screen. What's so ironic is that for an actor to show they can stay in character and work, using a Green Screen is to show real skill in your craft. These two say they can't hack it.

Deeply disappointed in this man.

[dragon-ball-meta]

Dear Mr. Meta,

Apologies for the length of this "ask," but I've got some things to say/ask to you.

I'm new to Tumblr and wish to say Thank you for being a fun and insightful look in the DB franchise with info and arguments I find thought-provoking. While there are posts that I don't entirely agree with (2 people who don't agree on everything, what a twist!), I respect your stances and don't want to add to the large pile of vulgar insults and hot-headed messages I assume you receive constantly. So thanks for being one of my first bloggers that I follow.

Another, but much bigger thank you to you (as well as to other Tumblr people such as Chestnut Island, SweetEscape Artist, etc.) for opening my eyes to the under dog of the DB series: Krillin. I now have a new mad respect for the man that I never would have imagined to come from me. Now realizing the hardships he went through, the power and skills that are overlooked by most fans, and his essential personality to the core group, I can safely say that I am rooting for him more than the Saiyans (not that I hate the Saiyan characters, but now see they hog the character spotlight, considering they are Toei's bread butter)! Furthermore, how have I been so blind to the greatest ship of this series: K18? They are just so well put together and their moments together make my heart flutter. Just a new found respect for aspects and characters I now have.

Finally, my "ask." For my first ever ask, I want it to be fun. Mr. Meta, alongside Krillin, who would you want to team up with him in a hypothetical scenario/movie/series arc but said partner must be a character that is not from Dragon Ball, but instead any other franchise. For example, my dream team up with Krillin is with the mutant who is the best there is as what he does, but what he does isn't very nice: Wolverine. The reason why: Perhaps some intriguing chemistry between the warrior monk and immortal mutant, the possibility of the two sharing their hardships and find comfort that they are still alive despite the lethal and emotional damage that have been inflicted upon them over the course of their lives. But really, it's mostly because I want to see a short hero team up. Wolverine is 3 in taller than Krillin, but it's not that big of a difference; just give me these two short bad asses kicking butt, working together, and one of them mentioning that being taller is overrated. The what if team up can be with anybody, not just Marvel. What is yours? P.S. I hope my ask let's you know that there are individuals who value your opinions and not just bash them. Here's to enjoying Dragon Ball and saying what comes to our minds, rationally of course.

1. Ah, well, thank you. And welcome. Hopefully, you find your time here enjoyable. 2. Yeah, the hyper-focus on the Saiyans can get a bit old at times. Especially in side media now where even some of the weaker known Saiyans are just elevated to god-tier power with the blink of an eye, and the human characters typically only get involved as jokes or to take on throwaway villains that they realistically are far stronger than now. But I’m happy if any of my posts have helped you appreciate these characters more. :) 3. If I absolutely had to choose: Probably Peter Parker. Those two are a lot more alike than people realize, and seeing that come into play and seeing them interact would be interesting. But it’s not really something I’ve given too much thought, tbh. Again, thanks for the kind words.